Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme - List of Funded Projects for 2012/13
Project No. Project Title Hong Kong Partner/Institution German Parnter/Institution Funding Period (year) 1st Year Amount
Awarded
by RGC (HK$)		 2nd Year Amount
Awarded
by RGC (HK$)
G_HK004/12 Colloidal Nano-heterostructures for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Prof Andrey Rogach/CityU Dr Frank Jaeckel/University of Munich (LMU) 2 44,700 44,700
G_HK005/12 Effect of Charge-transfer Excitations on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of an Aromatic Amines on Ag Nanoparticles Prof Rui-qin Zhang/CityU Prof Dr Thomas Niehaus/University of Regensburg 2 43,000 43,000
G_HK006/12 Development of Wrought Magnesium Alloys for Biocompatible Applications: Processing-Microstructure-Property Control
 Dr Rao P Kamineni/CityU Dr Norbert Hort/Helmoltz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Magnesium Innovation Centre 2 30,000 30,000
G_HK012/12 Neural Underpinnings of Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
 Dr Changsong Zhou/HKBU Prof Werner Sommer/Humboldt-University at Berlin 2 45,000 45,000
G_HK015/12 Automated Fabrication of Micro-nano Systems Based on Robotic Handling of CNTs and Grapheme Prof Ruxu Du/CUHK Prof Sergej Fatikow/University of Oldenburg 2 44,700 18,800
G_HK016/12 Cyclooxygenase-2 Upregulation and Vascular Dysfunction Prof Yu Huang/CUHK Prof Maik Gollasch/Charite University Medicine 2 16,100 18,800
G_HK017/12 To Study the Electrophysiological Response of Human Mast Cell Activation and Their Implication in the Treatment of Allergies Using Microelectrode Array (MEA) Prof John Anthony Rudd/CUHK Prof Sven Ingebrandt/University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern 2 28,700 28,700
G_HK020/12 Complexity in Visual Communication: a Diachronic Case Study of the Comic Book as Multimodal Document
 Dr Francisco Veloso/PolyU Prof John Bateman/University of Bremen 2 44,800 44,800
G_HK021/12 Compiler-Assisted Techniques for Improving Reliability with Emerging Non-Volatile Memory in Embedded Systems
 Dr Zili Shao/PolyU Prof Jörg Henkel/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 2 28,600 28,600
G_HK022/12 Profiling Faults in Cyber-Physical Systems for Dependability Assurance from a Hybrid Modeling Perspective Dr Qixin Wang/PolyU Prof Neeraj Suri/TU Darmstadt 2 45,000 45,000
G_HK025/12 Medicinal Chemistry of Gold Complexes
 Prof Chi Ming Che/HKU Prof Ingo Ott/Technische Universität Braunschweig 2 44,700 44,800
G_HK030/12 Remembering faces and objects Prof William Gordon Hayward/HKU Dr Holger Wiese/Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena 2 44,800 44,800
G_HK033/12 Investigation of Nd-Hf isotopic decoupling: case studies of West Junggar and South China granitoids Prof Min Sun/HKU Prof Ernst Hegner/Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich 2 30,000 30,000
G_HK035/12 Learning Process-Oriented Thinking via e-Learning Systems Dr Minhong Wang/HKU Dr Jürgen Moormann/Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 2 44,800 44,800